Confirmed: New BA short haul flights from Manchester

richardw

BA Cityflyer base

Thu-Sun from 18th May 2017 serving

Ibiza 3 weekly,
2 weekly Palma and Nice,
1 weekly Malaga, Alicante and
London City (the LCY is the positioner back to base).

E190 aircraft and run until 24th Sept.

Starting prices may be good and there may be good avios redemption.

This is just a rumour at the moment.

Voyager2002

richardw wrote: »

BA Cityflyer base

Thu-Sun from 18th May 2017 serving

Ibiza 3 weekly,
2 weekly Palma and Nice,
1 weekly Malaga, Alicante and
London City (the LCY is the positioner back to base).

E190 aircraft and run until 24th Sept.

Starting prices may be good and there may be good avios redemption.

This is just a rumour at the moment.

Still no service to Cuba.

What a waste of an airline.

pollypenny

Waste of an airport, too! Terminal 3 was the BA terminal. We have so many Avios so I hope it's true.

zappomatic

The E190 in BA CityFlyer's configuration is lovely to fly on - wide, well padded 2+2 seating and 34 inch pitch throughout.

richardw

More rumour today that the BA flights are in Manchester Airport's website online timetable and the destinations will be Ibiza, London City, Mykonos, Malaga, Palma, Nice and Alicante.
Be ready to spend those avios.

Palma:

BA9795 MAN 0550 PMI 0935
BA9796 PMI 1020 MAN 1205
Sundays

Ibiza:

BA9785 MAN 1250 IBZ 1640
BA9786 IBZ 1725 MAN 1910
Sundays

BA9785 MAN 1930 IBZ 2330
BA9786 IBZ 0005 MAN 0150
Saturdays (into Sunday)

BA9785 MAN 2125 IBZ 0115
BA9786 IBZ 0155 MAN 0330
Thursdays

Nice:

BA9793 MAN 1305 NCE 1625
BA9794 NCE 1710 MAN 1835
Saturdays

Mykonos:

BA9789 MAN 1310 JMK 1910
BA9790 JMK 1955 MAN 2205
Fridays

London City:

BA9784 LCY 1945 MAN 2045
Thursdays
BA973 MAN 1955 LCY 2055
Sundays

Malaga:

BA9787 MAN 0535 AGP 0935
BA9788 AGP 1020 MAN 1225
Fridays

Alicante:

BA9791 MAN 0550 ALC 0940
BA9792 ALC 1025 MAN 1220
Saturdays

19th May -29th Sept

Westin

Presumably those odd MAN/LCY/MAN flights are positioning ones.

Would seem strange to market a weekly flight to London City with only a return some days later. Not going to draw many business flyers.

Mykonos looks a bit of an outside bet as well.

richardw

Yes the LCY flights are positioning flights, the Sunday night one from MAN highly likely to be delayed and possibly cancelled.

pollypenny

I wish they'd bring back the Gatwick shuttle.

Westin

+1 Pollypenny.

That was a very handy connection and would be great but I doubt BA would reinstate.

Presumably even operating for connecting traffic over direct profitability on the stand alone route I don't think it worked. When I used it there would always be a number of airline staff (BA and others) on it, who I suspect were travelling on rebated tickets.

Had there been any profitably I think Easyjet or Flybe would have picked it up.

Still we can wish and hope....

pollypenny

I'm surprised that MAN to LGW was unprofitable, especially in the summer when there seemed to be lots of flights. The winter service was basically morning and evening.

We used to use the link to Tampa regularly.

Whattodo11

Hi , I am new to this and sorry if this doesn't sit in the right place. I booked flights via BudgetAir.co.uk and now panicking as seen quite a few negative or shall i say,bad, reviews but they have been quite old too.
Anyone used this or know people who have and whats the review been.
Thanks